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We observed the predicted outburst of the Alpha Monocerotid (AMO) meteor shower on 2019 November 22 with our modernized video and photographic cameras. Due to the short duration and moderate intensity of the outburst, atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Lukáš Shrbený , Jiří Borovička , Pavel Koten , Pavel Spurný , Rostislav Štork , Kamil Hornoch , Vlastimil Vojáček

Quasi-coherent oscillations have been detected in the extreme ultraviolet flux of the dwarf nova SS Cygni during observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite of the rise and plateau phases of an anomalous outburst in 1993…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Christopher W. Mauche

By using an array of high-sensitivity CCD video devices and spectrographs, the activity of meteor events from the poorly-known $\rho$-Geminid meteoroid stream has been monitored during January 2012 and 2013. As a result of this research,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jose M. Madiedo

The Desert Fireball Network observed a significant outburst of fireballs belonging to the Southern Taurid Complex of meteor showers between October 27 and November 17, 2015. At the same time, the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance…

We use the Slovak and Czech video meteor observations, as well as video meteoroid orbits collected in the CAMS, SonotaCo, EDMOND and DMS catalogues, for an analysis of the distribution of meteoroid orbits within the stream of the Geminids…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Maria Hajdukova , Pavel Koten , Leonard Kornos , Juraj Toth

The Quadrantid meteor shower is among the strongest annual meteor showers, and has drawn the attention of scientists for several decades. The stream is unusual, among others, for several reasons: its very short duration around maximum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Abedin Abedin , Pavel Spurny , Paul Wiegert , Petr Pokorny , Jiri Borovicka , Peter Brown

We report on a pencil-beam survey of the Taurid Swarm, a possible concentration of bodies in the Taurid meteoroid stream associated with the 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope MegaCam observations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Paul Wiegert , Denis Vida , David L. Clark , Auriane Egal , Richard Wainscoat , Robert Weryk

A tau-Herculid meteor outburst or even a storm was predicted by several models to occur around 5~UT on 31~May, 2022 as a consequence of the break-up of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in 1995. The multi-instrument and multi-station…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Pavel Koten , Lukáš Shrbený , Pavel Spurný , Jiří Borovička , Rostislav Štork , Tomáš Henych , Vlastimil Vojáček , Jan Mánek

We have observed a number of minor radio flares in Cyg X-3 using the MERLIN array. Photometric observations show the system to be highly active with multiple flares on hourly timescales over the one month observing programme. Analysis of…

The outburst of 8 October 2011 of Draconids meteors has been observed visually onboard of Alitalia AZ790 flight. The enhanced zenithal hourly rate around ZHR=300 from 19 UT to 21:50 UT has been observed over central Asia. The data and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 Costantino Sigismondi

The paper presents an analysis of Polish Fireball Network (PFN) observations of enhanced activity of the Southern Taurid meteor shower in 2005 and 2015. In 2005, between October 20 and November 10, seven stations of PFN determined 107…

High-resolution observations from the $Interface~Region~Imaging~Spectrometer$ ($IRIS$) reveal the existence of a particular type of small solar jets, which arose singly or in clusters from a tornado-like prominence suspended in the corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Bart De Pontieu , Suli Ma , Bernhard Kliem , Eric Priest

We present new analyses of ALMA 12-m and ACA observations at 233 GHz (1.3 mm) of the Proxima Centauri system with sensitivities of 9.5 and 47 $\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$, respectively, taken from 2017 January 21 through 2017 April 25. These…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Meredith A. MacGregor , Alycia J. Weinberger , David J. Wilner , Adam F. Kowalski , Steven R. Cranmer

The Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope (W-FAST) is a 55cm optical survey telescope with a high cadence (25Hz) monitoring of the sky over a wide field of view (~7deg^2). The high frame rate allows detection of sub-second transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Sagi Ben-Ami , Noam Segev , David Polishook , Ilan Manulis

The activity of the Quadrantids in January during several years (2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012) has been investigated in the framework of the SPanish Meteor Network (SPMN). For this purpose, an array of high-sensitivity CCD video devices and…

We have estimated the largest meteoroids present in major meteor showers from observations conducted between 2019-2022 by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument on the GOES-R satellites. Our integrated time area products for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-10 Kasia Wisniewski , Peter Brown , Danielle Moser , Randy Longenbaugh

Material arriving at our solar system from the Galaxy may be detected at Earth in the form of meteors ablating in our atmosphere. Here we report on a search for interstellar meteors within the highest-quality events in the Global Meteor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Paul Wiegert , Vanessa Tran , Cole Gregg , Denis Vida , Peter Brown

Context. Several authors predicted an outburst of the Draconid meteor shower in 2018, but with an uncertain level of activity. Aims. Optical meteor observations were used to derive the population and mass indices, flux, and radiant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Denis Vida , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Peter G. Brown , Auriane Egal , Michael J. Mazur

The Draconid meteor shower shows strong bursts of activity at irregular intervals, with nearly no activity in intervening years. Five outbursts of the Draconid meteor shower were observed with specular meteor radars in Canada and Europe…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 M. D. Campbell-Brown , G. Stober , C. Jacobi , J. Kero , A. Kozlovsky , M. Lester

The Taurid Resonant Swarm (TRS) within the Taurid Complex hosts dynamically-concentrated debris in a 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Fireball observations have confirmed that the TRS is rich in sub-meter-sized particles, but whether…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Quanzhi Ye , Jasmine Li , Denis Vida , David L. Clark , Eric C. Bellm